khaled_a_d
Senior Member
Thanks mate, that one is helpful. Although it doesn't open for some reason.
Few comments:
According to a translation I read in Arabic site, Griezmann sale is already counted, so his wage isn't counted.
That goes with what Tebas confirmed before, that they have already counted Griezmann's sale.
That one is massive, Barca has the most teams among Spanish clubs IIRC, at least relevant ones. Laporta has doubled down and strengthened woman's team, basketball team and Handball's team. Basketball team is by far the most expensive one. Mirotic alone has 5M net contract, that is over 9M for the highest paid player in Europe, and apparently he is leaving.
How much are we planning to save though? 10M? 40m? Those are massive differences tbh.
Those teams were always subsidized by football team (and government) and it makes sense that we stop that.
But the amount of cut is essential.
Also, Barca B is one of the other teams, this means that we will need to make some cuts there too. Time for austerity.
That one is again massive, and they are saying 20M out of those for Umtiti's alone.
That is sadly bad news, because it means we deferred most of his wages when he renewed for next season, that will cost us dearly now.
And it also means that Umtiti will have to accept significant paycut to get rid of him.
Other loans are few Barca B players whom we will get got offers for, Nico who is neutral value, Abde whom we can sell or loan (or bring back), Collado who we should cut ties with, and Lenglet and Dest. The last two are probably the biggest possible and realistic cuts. If I have to take a guess they are at least 20M out of the remaining 30M. Dest will be tough to get rid of but I think another loan would help.
Overall, if we can cut 30M of those, it will be huge.
Tebas was clear that this season we are on 400M wage, that is why we are at 40% rule (that was 1:4) and not 1:1
So it isn't a good news at all, Real is 80M over us. And we will have Balde contract getting bigger soon.
We will be adding more players too. and even if we can register them we risk making accounting losses that will affect next season.
Xavi and his assistants are also demanding significant pay raise, which is the reason contract isn't signed yet.
But there are some positives:
Next year is probably our lowest allowed cap space, because it is our only full season outside of Camp Nou. It will improve once we are back and peak once the stadium is completed. 24/25 season is questionable though as construction rarely follow schedule.
Also, next year we are paying Busquets remaining deferred wage, we are paying 40% of of Alba salary, Lewandowski contract is artificially made that next season is the highest one (essentially making his 1st season the lowest, in order to ease registeration) and I suspect the same was done for several signings. Fremkie renewal will slash his amortisation too.
Overall, this means the club will need strong austerity measures in all departments and it is time for other teams to be one supporting 1st team football and not the opposite, and this should remain for few years till stadium is complete.
We will need to be super smart with our signings too, and to be stingy a little bit. No need to spend every penny we can.
Also, very few players should be untouchable tbh
Things should be much better then in 2024 if we don't suffer from total accounting loss, and probably we will be 1:1 rule by then.
Just hope Laporta will accept that and prepare for it. Which seems the case as we are making peace with Tebas and may even do the same with UEFA
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